Cosmo for Latinas and Mamiverse Partner

By
Michelle Mulligan

Aug 20, 2012

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A little over a year ago, I stood in the middle of my living room and stared at a pile of boxes that reached the ceiling and spilled onto my pullout couch, pressing it half-way into "sleeper mode." I put my hands over my face, trying to stop a tsunami of tears. I had to be out of my apartment, where I had lived for more than 10 years, in less than 10 days. With no driver's license and roughly $600 in my bank account, I didn't know how I was going to do it.

As usual, when faced with trouble, I did the first thing I knew to do; I called a friend. In about 20 minutes flat, a plan was put in place: the day I moved, my friend, also named Michelle, met me at the U-Haul office at 8 a.m on a Saturday morning. Yeah, I know, only a true friend would do that.

She had on a baseball cap, sneakers and an incredible we-can-do-this attitude. Somehow, she managed to navigate the massive truck through the densely packed streets of Brooklyn—only hitting one taxi along the way! What had seemed like a nearly impossible task at first, turned into a four-hour adventure filled with laughter and my arrival at a new place that I have now called home.

I'm thinking of this story as I happily announce our new partnership with Mamiverse. The brainchild of two other long-time colleagues and amistades, the brilliant Lorraine Ladish and the forward-thinking René Alegria, the site for bicultural mothers covers everything from teaching your children Spanish and finding romance at any age to how to sit down and have "the talk" without embarrassment.

I couldn't be more excited about the new avenues of conversation that will open up between our two "homes," where thousands of readers stop in to learn more about how to navigate their own big life moments.

So please look out for Mamiverse articles featured here, we'll be posting them every Monday!!